Well, according to President Obama and his administration, the war in Iraq is officially over. Seven years after we first went into the country, the last of our combat brigades have left for home, leaving around 50,000 advisory troops to help the Iraqis find and keep their way to democracy. It remains to be...
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SHOULD WE TRUST OUR GOVERNMENT? This seems like a legitimate question to ask, but one that I am not sure I or anyone else has a good answer to. I have long since discovered that the politicians who represent me are pretty much great, but the ones who represent you, well maybe not so...
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One of the biggest criticisms of President George W. Bush and his administration is how they seemed to like governing in secret. It is no secret, pun fully intended, that the Bush administration was not the most open administration our country has seen. I won’t bore you with the specifics, but the exemptions to...
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Please vote in the poll at the end of this article. Has it really been over a year since the first emergency loans were provided to General Motors and Chrysler? In fact, it was a year on December 19, 2009. It was then that President George W. Bush and his administration decided to give...
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Is there anyone here who hasn’t felt overwhelmed by the amount of money spent on political campaigns? I don’t know about you, but I have bemoaned for years, the fact that it seems to take so much money to even think about being competitive in a national election. It doesn’t matter if we are...
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Let’s see now, what is that old saying? Something about honesty being good for the soul. If that’s the case, then my soul should be in pretty good shape after this post. That is unless the mixed feelings get in the way because my feelings about new taxes are very mixed. First of all,...
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Much has been said and written in the past few days, concerning the attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit and his defense lawyers are scrambling to present the proper defense. With so much evidence...
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MORE SPENDING=ECONOMIC STIMULUS=JOBS CREATION I sometimes wonder if the equation above actually does what the big spenders want us to believe. Since sometime in 2008, we have seen an unprecedented amount of money spent on stimulating our economy. It started under George W. Bush and it has only gotten bigger and more expensive since...
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It was a question that was asked at least twice on the Sunday talk shows this past weekend. Depending on who you were talking to, you could have received a couple of different answers. Larry Summers, who is the top economic adviser to the White House was asked that question on ABC’s This Week...
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Well, here I go again, treading waters where I probably have no business swimming in. I was very busy over the weekend with computer problems and was unable to keep up with the news. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that one of the top stories was how President Barack Obama mismanaged his meeting...
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